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All the Gallant Men
An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
THE FIRST MEMOIR BY A USS ARIZONA SURVIVOR: Donald Stratton, one of the battleship's five living heroes, delivers a "powerful" and "intimate"* eyewitness account of Pearl Harbor and his unforgettable return to the fight
At 8:10 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First...
Forty Autumns
A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family—of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall...
Badass
A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever Live
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
The badasses populating the pages of Badass are the most savagely awesome historical figures to ever strap on a pair of chain mail gauntlets and run screaming into battle. Author Ben Thompson—considered by many to be the Internet’s foremost expert on badassitude—has gathered together a rogues’...
Member of the Family
My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne Lake chronicles her years with Charles Manson, revealing for the first time how she became the youngest member of his Family and offering new insights into one of the twentieth century’s most notorious...
Every Man a Hero
A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Omaha Beach legend Ray Lambert's unforgettable firsthand account of D-Day—read the astonishing true story celebrated by Tom Brokaw, CBS This Morning, NPR, and the President.
Seventy-five years ago, he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave. Now Ray Lambert,...
Craig & Fred
A Marine, A Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
The uplifting and unforgettable true story of a US Marine, the stray dog he met on an Afghan battlefield, and how they saved each other and now travel America together, "spreading the message of stubborn positivity."
In 2010, Sergeant Craig Grossi was doing intelligence work for Marine...
For the Good of the Game
The Inside Story of the Surprising and Dramatic Transformation of Major League Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The longtime Commissioner of Major League Baseball provides an unprecedented look inside professional baseball today, focusing on how he helped bring the game into the modern age and revealing his interactions with players, managers, fellow owners, and fans nationwide.
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by Michael Savage
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Radio legend Michael Savage reveals the man behind the microphone, sharing his extraordinary American journey and the adventures that shaped him.
**FEATURING EXCLUSIVE, NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED NEW MATERIAL**
For twenty-five years, Michael Savage has captivated listeners on his national...
Etched in Sand
A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Regina’s Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope.
Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an...
Make 'Em Laugh
Short-Term Memories of Longtime Friends
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The beloved Hollywood star and New York Times bestselling author of Unsinkable continues her intimate chat with fans in this entertaining collection of anecdotes, stories, jokes, and random musings from a woman who has seen it all—and done most of it.
From her acclaimed performances to her...
Growing Up Fisher
Musings, Memories, and Misadventures
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Actress, director, entertainer Joely Fisher invites readers backstage, into the intimate world of her career and family with this touching, down-to-earth memoir filled with incredible, candid stories about her life, her famous parents, and how the loss of her unlikely hero, sister Carrie Fisher, ignited...
Desert Flower
The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Waris Dirie leads a double life -- by day, she is an international supermodel and human rights ambassador for the United Nations; by night, she dreams of the simplicity of life in her native Somalia and the family she was forced to leave behind. Desert Flower, her intimate and inspiring memoir, is...
A Garden of Marvels
How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
In the tradition of The Botany of Desire and Wicked Plants, a witty and engaging history of the first botanists interwoven with stories of today’s extraordinary plants found in the garden and the lab.
In Paradise Under Glass, Ruth Kassinger recounted with grace and humor her journey from...
by Henri Charriere
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
“A modern classic of courage and excitement.” —The New Yorker • The source for the iconic prison-escape film starring Steve McQueen
Henri Charrière, nicknamed "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit....